Life at the Edge of the World

The Wall, by Marlen Haushoffer, was first written in 1968. The Wall, is a haunting study of what a person can love when everything has been taken away. "I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead..." writes the heroine of Marlen Haushoffer's The Wall, a quite ordinary unnamed, middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living person. Accompanied by her dog, she begins the terrifying work of survival, and eventually, self renewal.